While the scale and severity may vary, a single theme often unites each newsworthy incident: An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing customer, medical, or financial data that's left out for ...

Using a combination of relatively low-tech techniques and tools, security researchers have discovered that they can access the contents of one in six Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets.

Learn More. Bad system configurations are exposing countless pieces of data housed in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) “buckets” and leaving them open to prying eyes. Amazon S3 is an online ...

If you're using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you'd do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid "example," skip "change_me," don't ...

Amazon is introducing a new bucket type for tables for its S3 cloud object storage and is presenting further innovations at the ongoing "AWS re:invent" user conference in Las Vegas. The "S3 Tables ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3 ... and addressing misconfigurations in cloud environments, including S3 buckets. My career has focused on bridging gaps in vulnerability prioritization and ...

Based on these findings, Pocwierz said he learned the following three lessons from using Amazon S3: Anyone who knows the name of your S3 bucket can increase your AWS bill however they like.

Amazon’s cloud storage Simple Storage Service (S3) now encrypts all new objects added on buckets server-side at no extra cost. In an announcement on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog ...